During the first dot-com boom, Worlds.com built 3D virtual
worlds for bands such as Aerosmith and for corporations such as IBM,
Visa, and Coca-Cola. Site visitors created avatars with customized
clothing and also designed their own environments. The company says
the lack of widespread broadband connections is to blame for the forward-thinking
site not catching on broadly way back in the 1990s. Worlds.com is still
active and chief executive Thom Kidrin says the company is currently
restructuring.